Past Events

Every Tuesday from February 14th to April 24th, Eyebeam & MoMA team up to present a youth workshop series exploring art that you can perform and wear using the latest in portable, digital innovation. Taught by Eyebeam alum Diana Eng, and taking their inspiration from MoMA's collection, participants will...

Gifpumper, developed by resident Slava Balasanov, combines elements of a social media site, blogging platform and virtual world into a single tool for collaborative creation online. Users can create 3d pages composed of 2d media elements (text, images, video, music) by rotating and positioning them in the XYZ coordinate...

From Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, technology has played an important role in shaping contemporary resistance and the representation of these events in the media. What new tools of protest and occupation have emerged over the past year? How does their use help to shape tomorrow’s democracies? The Urban Research Group @...

The Spacepod is a chamber that projects auditory architecture around a listener. Using an omnidirectional array of speakers, it produces a sensation of auditory surfaces using ambisonic localization, psychoacoustic cues, and parametric mapping. Effectively, one finds oneself navigating by ear a world in which every...

Eyebeam Resident Slava Balasanov works at the intersection of visual art, digital culture and technology. Inspired by virtual augmented-reality and the interplay between 2D, 3D and physical space, Balasanov will transform the Eyebeam Store into a temporary multi-media showroom based on his interactive project The Digit:...

Lumarca is a truly volumetric display which allows viewers to see three dimensional images and motion. The system requires only acomputer, a projector, and common materials found at most hardware stores. Its scale is limited only by the size of the projected image and your own ambition.

Gifpumper.com is a social platform by Eyebeam Resident Slava Balasanov which allows for the creation of 3d websites with 2d content found online. Users are able to manipulate content on a given page together, in real-time. To celebrate the public launch of the site, Balasanov has invited 10 artists to...

Eyebeam Resident Alan Sondheim and dancer/choreographer Foofwa are performing intermittently in the Eyebeam Project Space between January 3rd and 7th from noon to 6PM each day. This experimental multi-media installation juxtaposes virtual choreography with on-the-fly movement, all set to a soundtrack of exclusive innerness....

"White Noise, Blind Spot" is an after school arts and technology intensive and paid leadership opportunity for NYC area high school students. Each year students in Eyebeam's After School Atelier (ASA) program are given the opportunity to work on projects cooperatively with Eyebeam Residents and Fellows, professional mentors,...

A two-day presentation at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center allowing an inside look at current research and in-progress work. Open Studios is a chance to meet the amazing artists and creative technologists that make Eyebeam an exciting creative incubator of new ideas, new art, and new technology: Think, Make, Share.

Where's the data? Technology has progressed to the point that we as citizens with concerns or interests can leverage open source hardware and software together with cloud platforms like Pachube to quickly and cheaply build the systems we need to get the data we want - data that matters...

Join us on December 1st for the opening reception of the “Creatomatic” exhibition.

On display will be a collection of artworks generated using the “Creatomatic” software, designed to accelerate the imagination and prompt new inventions. They include: “Candelier” by Takeshi Miyakawa, a chandelier cast entirely out of...

"Creatomatic" is a piece of software designed to accelerate the imagination and prompt new inventions. It works by randomly juxtaposing diagrams of two everyday objects from a selection of hundreds. Through free association, the two objects can prompt the invention of an entirely new...

Cicatrix, Charred Bodies: Pain and Redemption in Virtual and Real Worlds opens at the Eyebeam Window Gallery on November 29th. "Cicatrix" refers to scar tissue, and for his installation Eyebeam Resident Alan Sondheim juxtaposes early radio equipment with contemporary models of virtual avatars to meditate on virtuality as it...